Policy Options for Reducing CO2 Emissions from Road Transport (English summary)
Policies to reduce CO2 emissions from road transport considerably over the next few decades must pursue two complementary strategies. The first strategy focuses on direct emissions reductions by stimulating measures that are already, or soon will be, cost-effective, but require an additional impetus to reach a mass market. In the short term they can lead to a reduction in CO2 emissions of a few megatonnes.
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The second strategy focuses on innovation, primarily to improve the price/performance ratio of promising vehicle and fuel concepts that are not yet ready for market introduction. The aim is to make these options suitable for large-scale rollout in future, when they can bring about major emissions reductions in a cost-effective way.
This is the main conclusion in the Netherlands Institute for Transport Policy Analysis (KiM) report ‘Policy Options for Reducing CO2 Emissions from Road Transport’. The study was carried out for the Directorates-General for Mobility & Transport and Environment & International Affairs of the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment. The study investigates possible policy measures for both strategies and the nature of these policies. The effects of policies in the first strategy are measurable (in tonnes CO2), but measuring progress with the second strategy is much more difficult: CO2 reduction is not a good measure because these policies are about learning effects. The study explores possible roles for government and looks into the span of control of the various policy tiers (EU, national, regional/local).